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No. 3586. PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1972.
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Hopes still for St. HOPE FOR the continuation of St. Louis School, despite this week's announcement of the Jesuit departure, rests with feasibility study currently being made by the W.A. Catholic Education Commission.
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A decision is expected in a fortnight. The study is being carried out in conjunction with a group of the school's lay staff and representatives of the parents and ex-students associations. The school heard the tional sports ground at announcement Lake Claremont. sudden Present enrolment is earlier this week that the Jesuit Fathers had to 375, with nine Jesuits and the 15 full time lay staff. from withdraw There were hopes of school at the end of the year. The announcement building a new secondcame with the 34th cele- ary school at one stage, bration locally of the and a site at Attadale, feast of their patron, St. which had been bought with the hope of setting Louis Gonzaga. up a seminary before Jesuit Provincial, Faththe St. Charles property er P. Kelly, was in Perth became available, was to break the news to the offered. lay staff on Sunday, and However, the idea was representatives of the to abandoned, and the promothers and fathers committees, Old Louisians perty offered was disposAppeal ed of recently on behalf and Building of the Archdiocese of Committee members. Perth. An announcement to A three-day meeting all students was made on last October, attended by Monday. Letters were members of the Province, circularised to parents. concluded that it was no The Australian Jesuit longer possible to conProvince has been con- duct all the Society's sidering the closure of schools. The Province has 320 the school for some time. The decision has been members, with a further attributed to the critical 37 in India. They conduct shortage of manpower five secondary colleges, caused by a decline in including St. Louis, in numbers entering the Australia. Two of these Society, and the signifi- colleges are boarding cant number of depart- schools. ures from it in recent Father Kelly pointed years. out that it was not a shift of emphasis in the goals PLANS DROPPED of the Society that proSt. Louis was founded mpted the St. Louis dein 1939. From a few cision. houses, it gradually grew The Jesuits hp Into a consolidated sec- strong interest in adult ondary school with a education. Involvement chapel, a science and lib. in primary education was rary block, and an addi- a comparatively recent
Representatives of all Catholic organisations accommodated a t the All Saints Centre, 77 St. George's Terrace, plus past and
present chaplains, attended their last Mass at the Chapel the re last Friday. The offices at the centre have been vacated and Pic tured at the All Saints Centre after the last Mass are, from shifted to Victoria Square. See pages eight and nine. left, Father Barry Hickey, Nicholas McSweeney, Ken Keating, John O'Reilly and J. Petry.
development among the SJ, sixth Rector of the citizens of a high moral Jesuits, as it was with school, it is a decision and spiritual calibre. Father Kelly felt the many religious teaching that he regrets deeply. He has offered to help specialised Ca tho lic orders. Father Kelly said there find a solution that will school existed to prowas now an increasing enable St. Louis to carry vide a rightly critical and demand for Jesuits to on as a Catholic school. informative training in work in university and He said he felt it was religion. He said: "This is a vital other tertiary levels, both most constructive that in chaplaincy work and there was now a W.A. need today. It is true that positions of Catholic Education Com- in recent years it has secular This was a mission to whom the been the experience of teaching. is more world-wide trend. matter could be referred. teachers that it and more difficult to Both Fathers Kelly and reach religion. NO SHIFT "Boys are no longer For the Jesuits in Aus- Walker are firmly contralia, there was also a vinced of the place a satisfied with stock anschool must swers. The need is for rapid increase in inter- Catholic pic- teachers who must be est in nearby Asian coun- take in an overall up-to-date in theology, tries, besides their com- ture of education. mitment in India. There Father Walker said that and who also must be were already five Jesuits far from being a divisive able to find the riaht in Papua-New Guinea, element, the Catholic way to put it over to the and first contact had al- school existed to produce modern boy." ready been made with Indonesia. The letter to parents of pupils in St. Louis said the decision did not mean neglect of WA by the Jesuits. • Glides silently on Nylofelt. It W:1S necessary four • Waist high centre lift-lock operates years ago, it pointed out, double bar locking for added protection. to close the historic St. • 149 production sizes for every application. Patrick's School right in the heart of Melbourne. • Removable mullions for double Or That closure freed eight multiple installation. Jesuits, but it was still O btainable from not possible to avert thtpresent decision. The Jesuits would conitnue their work in St. Thomas More College, CNN COLLINGWOOD ST AND FROBISHER ST OSBORNE PARE the W.A. University, and PHONE 24 1300 AFTER HOURS SALES JOHN BELL 31452$ Jesuit Provincial Fr. P. Kelly and St. Louis Rector, Attadale parish. .41111111•111111111ft. Fr. D. Walker. For Father D. Walker,
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